North52 Process Genies are useful for extending Dynamics 365 processes such as workflows, dialogs and actions.
In Dynamics 365, select Settings->BPA Home:
Select Process Genie:
Let’s say we want to build a process that will update every account with the number of opportunities they have. The opportunity count will be stored in a new custom field on the account record.
To do this, select Account and click Create:
This opens the North52 formula window:
We will change our display format to integer:
Now, we will want to add code to loop through all the account records. North52 has different formulas to help with looping.
In this case, we will use ForEachRecord:
ForEachRecord('entitycollection', 'action1', 'action2')We can also create a snippet through the UI:
Which provides the template:
For our code, we will find all accounts called TEST and update the custom field Number of Opportunities field to 0. Note the 2nd parameter contains an EntityCollection:
ForEachRecord(
FindRecords('account', 'name', 'TEST', '*', '50', true),
UpdateRecord('account',
CurrentRecord('accountid'),SetAttribute('new_numberofopportunities', 0))
)Save the code. Note the Short Code created:
Now, we will create a new workflow to call our Process Genie:
We will run this as an on-demand process:
Add step and select Process Genie:
Set properties:
Enter the Short Code from above:
Now we will run the workflow on demand.
Refresh the record. We can see on running the code accounts have been updated:
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